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Vada ] Ganadharavāda
: 129: cannot accomplish objets like sarira on account of the following reasons :
(1) If jiva is presumed to be the Kartā of śarira eto., it must have some means to produce them. Just 88 & potter cannot produce a ghata without the help of an upakaraṇa like daņda, so also, jiva cannot accomplish Kāryas like śartra in absence of an upakarana. Now, jiva is not supposed to have any other upakarana except Karman in producing sarira eto. For, no other upakaraña except Karman can exist in the state of embryo etc.
(2) In the process of accomplishment of Kāryas like śarira, jiva would not be able to suck up semen, blood eto., without the help of Karman.
(3) Jiva cannot accomplish sarira etc., on account of its inactive, incorporeal, and all-pervading nature like ākāśa.
Again, it is useless to believe that sariravān isvara produces each and every object such as daha etc. Because the above-mentioned difficulties are bound to arise in that case also. In absence of an upakarana, Isvara like a potter without a daņda, is not supposed to create his own body. Now here, if it is assumed that a second Isvara creates the body of this Isvara, consider whether that Isvara has a body or not. If he has no body it is clear from what has already been dis cussed that he cannot create sarira in absence of an upakarana. But if it is said that a third Isvara having a body creates the body of this Isvara, a fouth Isvara shall have to be supposed to create the body of the third one, and a fifth Isvara to create that of the fourth one, and so on, until ultimately it results in an anavasthā which is not at all desirable.
Thus it is clear that Išvara is not the creator of śartra etc. But in spite of that if it is believed that Jśvara creates sarira etc., consider whether he doea so with or without any
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